Restaining Red Oak Floors
The hallway music room entryway and living room are all original almost 70 years old.
Restaining red oak floors. Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species. As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look. If you have pine it will be a bit darker and. My oak floors are covered in scratches.
Now that you have a home full of beautiful floors keep them looking new by sweeping and mopping regularly using furniture pads and exercising caution with hard soled shoes. Experts say you can refinish traditional hardwood floors up to 10 times so with a bit of care your floors should last and remain beautiful for a lifetime. The editors of this old house reply. The kitchen was installed two years ago and the breakfast room and pantry were installed about three or four months ago.
However the first method gives better results. Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look. The problem is while you may think darker colors would hide dirt they make dust particles more noticeable. Wood floors are among the most beautiful of floors if maintained properly.
Maintaining the finish on your floor can be a time. So just to recap these are all red oak hardwood floors. Unlike some hardwoods oak continues to be relatively abundant and most oak floors are solid wood. If you have white oak it will be a bit darker because white oak is a bit darker than red oak for more info on red oak vs.
Do i have to sand down to bare wood to get rid of them. I payed to have the floors sanded but i didn t hire floor specialists. If the scratches don t go all the way through to the wood you can scuff sand your floors with a buffer and apply a fresh coat or two of finish. Be careful with the wood species.
If you decide to refinish your wood floors the fun part is picking a new stain color like rich mahogany or dark oak which are both very popular right now. If you have maple it will be a bit lighter. You can also use a chemical to etch the existing finish then apply new finish. The best way to refinish wood floors without sanding is to scuff the floor with a buffer and sanding screen then apply two coats of new finish.
How to refinish solid oak flooring. Most are made of oak a strong hardwood but only look as nice as the finish itself. Susan bankhead meridian idaho. Most homes have oak flooring and to the left is a picture of red oak hardwood natural with no stain.
One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that.